John Baldessari, Koen van den Broek - This an Example of That - MER. Books 2008 architecture challenging our preconceptions of how

challenging our preconceptions of how the world should be and appear

registers and even configurations

silk and evening wear

Through photography

a Syrian actress and traditional Nigerian hairstyles representing women who fled Boko Haram

John Baldessari, Koen van den Broek - This an Example of That - MER. Books 2008 architecture challenging our preconceptions of howThis elegant, large format artists book is the result of a collaboration between iconic American conceptual artist John Baldessari and young Belgian painter Koen van der Broek. Using images from Baldessaris archive of photographs taken of Hollywood sets, van der Broek creates new readings of these pictorial scenes by overlaying them with brightly colored passages and strokes. The result is a series of striking images that exist somewhere between